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Program Notes

In Göran Tunstöm’s novel Le Livre d’or des gens de Sunne, The Breaking of the Circle is an
imaginary book that exists only in one examplary. This book tells the story of a world — maybe ours
— which is falling appart as a result of an unknownable fault…

This piece was written between july 2003 and january 2004, and is a kind of evolving texture.
Each moment of the texture is a variation on the idea of the chorus of a pop song called Bodies by
Smashing Pumpkins (in which the refrain Love is suicide gave all the basic materials). My approach
is based on two ideas: 1- Musical situations derived from chosen “filters” applied on a already
existing «image sonore». It’s a kind of recuperation and tranformation of cultural icons which
impacts on our sensibility is as real and important as simplistic and paradoxal. 2- Large scale
harmonic and durations progressions are composed and then “filled” by chosen motives and their
derivations. I offer this piece to my mother’s memory.